Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Claims, contexts and contestability
- PART I REASON AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
- PART II THEISTIC ARGUMENTS IN PRE-MODERN CONTEXTS
- PART III THEISTIC ARGUMENTS IN EARLY-MODERN CONTEXTS
- Appendix: The 1997 Hulsean Sermon
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix: The 1997 Hulsean Sermon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Claims, contexts and contestability
- PART I REASON AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
- PART II THEISTIC ARGUMENTS IN PRE-MODERN CONTEXTS
- PART III THEISTIC ARGUMENTS IN EARLY-MODERN CONTEXTS
- Appendix: The 1997 Hulsean Sermon
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, our Strength and our Redeemer. Amen.
The Hulsean Sermon was established at the end of the eighteenth century by the will of John Hulse, a Johnian from Cheshire. From what I can discover about him, John Hulse was not an easily admirable man. He was irritable and difficult, seemingly unable for long to sustain good relations with family or friends – not the sort of person you would readily invite to dine at your college on Guest Night: or the sort you would without qualification select as a model to ‘direct our lives after his good example’, as it says in the Bidding Prayer. John Hulse was a person with faults and blemishes: a person not unlike ourselves. By his benefactions to his alma mater, however, his munificence has continued to advantage a long chain of students of this University for over 200 years. He is properly counted among those we gratefully remembered for their beneficence in the Bidding Prayer this morning.
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- Religions, Reasons and GodsEssays in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Religion, pp. 310 - 317Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006